Mentoring is a mutually beneficial practice that provides opportunities both for mentor and mentee, as well as pay dividends for employers. Corporations have discovered that the act of implementing strategic mentoring results in great short and long term value. Mentoring creates collaborations, bonds, and buy-in like no other relationship process. This seminar will help you engage, find, and benefit from mentoring programs. At the end of this seminar participants will be able to: a. Identify strategic mentoring solutions. b. Examine the benefit of reverse mentoring. c. Explore successful networking strategies that connect people. d. Examine mentoring activities and suggestions that enrich the experience. e. Explore ways to identify and pair successful mentoring matches.

1. PURPOSE DRIVEN
MENTORING
How to Find, Pick, and Create
Powerful Mentor Relationships
Saturday, October 17, 2015
3:30 pm-5:05 pm

2. Purpose Driven Mentoring
How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring
relationships
Learning Objective: Assess successful mentoring
techniques
Mentoring is a mutually beneficial practice that provides
opportunities both for mentor and mentee, as well as pay
dividends for employers. Corporations have discovered
that the act of implementing strategic mentoring results in
great short and long term value. Mentoring creates
collaborations, bonds, and buy-in like no other
relationship process. This seminar will help you engage,
find and benefit from mentoring programs.
2 Purpose Driven Mentoring: How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships October 17, 2015

3. Learning Objectives
 Identify strategic mentoring solutions
 Examine the benefit of reverse mentoring
 Explore successful networking strategies that connect people
 Examine mentoring activities and suggestions that enrich the
experience
 Explore ways to identify and pair successful mentoring
matches.
3 Purpose Driven Mentoring: How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships October 17, 2015

4. 4 Purpose Driven Mentoring: How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships October 17, 2015
Denise Evans
Vice President
Women & Diversity B2B Marketing
IBM Corporation
Stephen Doyle
Director, Product Validation &
Materials Engineering,
Meritor
Lauren White
Mechanical Engineer
Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
United States Navy
Purpose Driven
Mentoring
Panelists
Moderator
Meghan Kahn
Manager, Diversity & Inclusion
Aerotek

5. Purpose Driven Mentoring
How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships
 What: is mentoring
 Why: benefits of mentoring
 How: to find / select
 Topics
 Mentors / Mentees
 Venue
 How: to create success
 Mutual Respect
 Be vulnerable / genuine
 Agreement
Purpose Driven Mentoring: How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships October 17, 2015

6. How is Mentoring Defined?
“A personal developmental relationship in which a more experienced
or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or
less knowledgeable person. The mentor may be older or younger,
but possess a certain area of expertise. It is a learning and
development partnership between someone with vast experience
and someone who wants to learn.”
Purpose Driven Mentoring: How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships October 17, 2015

7. Benefits of Mentoring
Benefits of Mentoring
1. Employee Career Development
2. High Potential Development
3. Diversity Training
4. Reverse Mentoring
5. Knowledge Transfer
Purpose Driven Mentoring: How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships October 17, 2015

8. Mentoring Topics
Competencies vs. Behaviors
8
Recent Graduates
entering workforce
69% - believe people
skills get in the way of
doing their jobs well
70% - believe that
their technical skill is
more valuable than
their people skills
Business Leaders
and HR directors
90% - believe that
employees with
strong people skills
deliver a better
commercial impact
91% - believe that
employees with
refined people skills
advance faster
Purpose Driven Mentoring: How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships October 17, 2015

9. How to Identify Mentoring Relationships
Purpose Driven Mentoring: How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships October 17, 2015

10. What would a Realistic Partnership
look like?
The mentoring pair should be
realistic about what they can do for
each other and should help one
another understand what kinds of
assistance each can expect.
Source: Institute for Clinical Research Education
Purpose Driven Mentoring: How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships October 17, 2015

11. Mentee
Mentor
Building a Foundation
• Establish Agreement
• Determine expectations, commitment and
involvement
• Develop rapport
• Set realistic expectations
Establishing the Relationship
• Establish your Agreement
• Determine expectations, commitment and
involvement
• Develop rapport
• Set realistic expectations
Make Your Needs Known
• Prepare for meetings and create agenda
• Express Your Focus
• Express Your Goals
Listen, Don’t Preach
• Prepare for meetings and create agenda
• Ask engaging questions
• Understand their focus/goals
Discover Skills to Hone
• Stories You Hear
• Dialogues You Share
• Assignments You Take
• Connections You Make
• Fully open up to advice/feedback
Do More Than Teach
• Share Stories and experiences
• Ask questions that probe deeper
• Debrief Experiences
• Provide suggestions without giving direction
Assess How You’ve Grown
• Action Plan
• Contribution Report
• Recognize progress and achievements
• Evaluate mentor and relationship
Define Actions for Each
• Identify Derailers and Energizers
• Decide on an Action Plan
• Report on Emerging Talent
• Evaluate mentee and relationship
Step 1: Initiation
Step 4: Closure
Step 2: Exploration
Step 3: Development
Partnership Expectations

12. Resources
• Your Journey to Executive, Advancing Women at
IBM Study
www.ibm.com/employment/us/diverse/downloads/advancing_women_at_IBM_study_
external_final.pdf
• How to Adopt Mentors Without Really Asking,
Shellye Archambeau, NYTimes 2012
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/shellye-archambeau-of-metricstream-
on-finding-mentors.html?_r=0
• Mentoring 101, John C. Maxwell
• The Mentee’s Guide; Making Mentoring Work for
You, Lory A. Fischler
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13. Leadership Resources
• Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Jean Greaves and Travis Bradberry
• The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner
• 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen covey
• First Things First, Stephen Covey
• Principle-Centered Leadership, Stephen Covey
• 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John C. Maxwell
• Good to Great, James Collins
• Built to Last, James Collins
• Toyota Way, Jeffrey Liker
• The Machine that Changed the World, Daniel Roos, Daniel T. Jones
and James P Womack
• Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance, Lou Gerstner
• Lean Thinking, Daniel T. Jones, James Womack
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Purpose Driven Mentoring: How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships October 17, 2015

14. 14 Purpose Driven Mentoring: How to find, pick and create powerful mentoring relationships October 17, 2015
Denise Evans
Vice President
Women & Diversity B2B Marketing
IBM Corporation
Stephen Doyle
Director, Product Validation &
Materials Engineering,
Meritor
Lauren White
Mechanical Engineer
Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
United States Navy
Your
Questions?
Meghan Kahn
Manager, Diversity & Inclusion
Aerotek